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the new shiznet: Verse. A Murder Mystery.
Rattapallax’s Ram Devineni (a long, long time favorite of ours) latest creative venture hits the magical teevee machine. Verse: A Murder Mystery debuted on the interwebs last summer delighting...
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while we were away…
We’ve been really busy. On the move. We’re reading for our upcoming Issue nO.6 (drops later this month! oh boy!). We released our first ever Storyteller Issue back in February. Our very own staff of...
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Go Deeper: Writing Sex Without Shame
photo credit: Ryan McGinley Which Is To Say, our featured essay column, returns with Chicago writer Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan. “The difference between guilt and shame is very clear—in theory. We feel...
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late breaking: USM Issue nO.6 is amazeballs.
Back in June we released our summer issue, featuring wonderful new work from Adrian Matejka, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Saeed Jones, Jai Chakrabarti, Anis Mojgani -among many others-, a dynamite...
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Ghost Horse Grazing: a note about black folk and nature writing.
For this week’s installment of our featured column, Which Is To Say, Roger Bonair-Agard unpacks the perception of black writers and nature writing. In the backyard peas two kinds of thyme a lime...
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What Education Reform and the Chicago Teachers’ Strike tells us.
Chicago Teachers Strike, September 10, 2012. photo by Lavon Nicole Pettis via Facebook. Here’s a story: For the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, which became the home of the Miracle on Ice, where...
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An assortment of superserioussilly questions for Jonathan Weiskopf.
Photographer Jonathan Weiskopf trained his eye on the New York City’s performance poetry community for the better part of two years. This obsession culminated in the release of For Some Time Now:...
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Between Ten Worlds: Moving as a Form of Therapy.
For our inaugural installment of Dispatches, a new column exploring writer Nick Fox offers us a meditation on wandering and healing. Portland is a staggeringly beautiful town. Notched into a deep,...
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Dispatches: Fellow Foreigners.
Cupped in anticipation of receiving a precious gift, she placed her palms beneath the faucet and waited. Nothing arrived. Looking around, she searched for a way to unlock the secret to flowing water....
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EXTRA! EXTRA! Announcing our first ever guest editors for Issue nO.9!
We are delighted to announce our guest editors for the Prose and Photography components of Issue nO.9. Stacia L. Brown is joining us as guest editor for Prose and Jonathan Weiskopf is our guest editor...
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